The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 113

The next day.

Zhu Cihong personally led an army of [-], and rushed to Xuanfu first, and the army arrived at the city at dusk.

The [-] soldiers in the city had already left the city and lined up to kneel down, waiting to be punished, without the slightest thought of resisting.

Obviously, everyone knows that resistance will lead to death, and only by begging for mercy can they survive.

And Wang Chengyin's eldest son, also with the whole family, knelt in the forefront, holding up the tray with tears in his eyes, and the family members behind him bowed their heads and sobbed.

"Wang Ben, the son of Wang Chengyin, the chief military officer of Xuanfu, kowtowed to my emperor, long live my emperor, long live long live!
My father knew that he was guilty of death, and he was ashamed to see His Majesty, so he committed suicide an hour ago..."

Several imperial guards stepped forward and lifted the red cloth covering the tray, and suddenly there was Wang Chengyin's head on it, and there was a memorial beside the head.

The imperial army took the tray and returned to Zhu Cihong. After a Jinyi guard inspected the head, he picked up the memorabilia on it and handed it to Zhu Cihong, saying: "Your Majesty, after inspection, it is indeed the chief soldier of Xuanfu." The head of the official Wang Chengyin!"

"Ok!"

Zhu Cihong nodded, then took the memorial and read it.

The above content is nothing more than a crime worthy of death, and then praised Zhu Cihong, and then told all the truth about Xuanfu Datong, and also put forward many suggestions for rectification.

After reading it, Zhu Cihong remained expressionless, and said coldly to Wang Ben and the family behind him: "I have already given your father a chance. If he had been ordered to report to Beijing, I would have dismissed him and put him under house arrest at most. In Beijing, it was he himself who didn’t cherish it. First he surrendered the thief, then he refused the order. When the situation came to an end, he committed suicide in fear of crime. If I forgive you, where is the law of the country? Where is the majesty of the emperor?”

"Come here, take the male relatives of Wang Chengyin's three clans to be executed on the spot, and the female relatives will be escorted to the capital and enslaved by the Jiaofang Division!"

Zhu Cihong said with a final wave of hands.

If you think you can protect your family by doing this, will you be able to resist the order in the future?A suicide apology after the incident?

It was wishful thinking, today he wanted to use the three clans of the two to warn all generals and soldiers in the world that the emperor's imperial decree is absolutely irresistible, and those who violate it will be punished.

Immediately, a group of Imperial Forest Army rushed up and began to carry out the emperor's order, while all the members of the Wang family were already paralyzed on the ground, crying unceasingly.

And the [-] soldiers kneeling on both sides were all pale and trembling, especially those generals, lieutenants, guards, and commanders, all of them were sweating profusely.

However, Zhu Cihong didn't kill them, he just seized and ransacked their homes, and he didn't arrest them even below Mr. Qian.

Killing people is not his original intention, but deterrence is. Sometimes it is better to kill chickens and monkeys than to kill chickens and monkeys.

After reprimanding [-] soldiers, Zhu Cihong led the army into the city, and the generals who were not captured also heaved a sigh of relief.

As soon as Zhu Cihong stayed in the official hall in the city, Wu Sanfu rushed to see him, obviously impatient to ask for credit.

"Your Majesty, when I arrived at Zhangjiakou with a large army, those merchants were about to escape, but I was caught by the minister. I beheaded more than [-] people, captured more than [-] people, and seized a large amount of money and food. Materials, weapons and armor, all of which are slave-style armor.”

"Well! You did a good job this time. You go back to Haosheng to take care of the supplies and personnel. Tomorrow, I will send someone to check and check."

Hearing that none of them left, Zhu Cihong nodded in satisfaction. If it wasn't already getting late, he really wanted to bring all eight profiteers here and interrogate them immediately.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Wu Sanfu hurriedly replied, then resigned and left in a hurry, returning to Zhangjiakou, without mentioning the credit of Niu Ben.

There is no way, the eunuch of Yumajian is easy to discuss, but Jin Yiwei's spies are hard to guard against, which makes him afraid to accept money, and women dare not ask for it, so why give credit to that guy?
Silent all night.

On the afternoon of the second day, Liu Fangliang led the army to the city, and then gathered [-] soldiers and horses to fight directly to Datong, while the rest of the army was stationed.

At this time, the command envoys of several nearby guards, Shouyu Qianhu, also rushed to see the news and plead guilty.

Zhu Cihong did not deal with these people for the time being, but let them stay in the city first, and deal with them together after all the military officers arrived.

"Wei Jin, Wu Sanfu confiscated a large amount of money, food and materials in Zhangjiakou. You pick a hundred supervisors, and then take five hundred imperial guards to count and compile the books!"

"It's Your Majesty!"

Wei Jin hurriedly replied, and then went down to pick people, because almost [-]% of the students from the Imperial College came with him this time, nearly a thousand people.

"Bring Fan, Wang and other criminals from the eight families, and I will personally interrogate them!"

After Wei Jin left, Zhu Cihong sat on the main seat in the official hall and shouted loudly.

Not long after, eight people including Fan Yongdou and Wang Dengku, and a group of immediate family members, more than 100 people in total, were brought in.

As soon as they came in, looking at the emperor sitting above them, everyone fell to their knees and cried.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me..."

"Shut up!"

"Who are Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, and the heads of the other six families, stand up for me."

Zhu Cilang yelled, except for Fan Yongdou and Wang Dengku, he couldn't remember the names of the other six people. Anyway, there are eight families, so there is no mistake.

"Criminal Fan Yongdou kowtows to His Majesty, begging His Majesty to show mercy..."

"The criminal king Dengku kowtowed to His Majesty and begged His Majesty to show mercy. The criminals are willing to donate all their property, totaling more than five hundred thousand taels of silver to make amends. Please Your Majesty extrajudicial mercy."

"Sinners..."

Sure enough, under Zhu Cihong's shout, everyone stopped crying, and then the Patriarchs of the Eight Families came out tremblingly, knelt down and kowtowed begging for mercy.

"Hmph! Do you now know how to be afraid of begging for mercy?"

"Why aren't you afraid when you smuggle weapons and supplies for Jiannu? Have you ever thought about the consequences of today?"

"Do you know how many Han people Jiannu killed me with the weapons you smuggled and wearing the armor you made? How many Han women did you rob me?"

"You bastards, beasts, things that are not as good as pigs and dogs, dogs and traitors, I will skin all of you and cram them, and then pour molten iron outside Zhangjiakou, and erect a monument to explain that you will be cast aside forever!"

"I'm going to kill all eight of your families, and make you cut off your sons and grandchildren. I'm going to make your wives and daughters be prostitutes for life and be trampled by thousands of people..."

Zhu Cihong was able to maintain the majesty of the emperor at the beginning, but at the end of the scolding, his true colors were revealed, his face was distorted, and even modern words came out, which shows how much he hates the Bajia.

And all the sensible people in the eight families were pissed and fecesed by Zhu Cihong's scolding, they were so frightened that their livers and gallbladders were torn apart, and all the female family members fainted from fright.

For a time, the inside and outside of the hall were stinky.

Even the Imperial Forest Army on the side were secretly shocked when they heard the emperor's words, wondering why His Majesty hated the members of these eight families so much.

They have never seen His Majesty lose his temper like this before.

"Pull it all down for me, interrogate clearly!"

Zhu Cihong was also disgusted by the stench, so he waved quickly.

He knew that the Ba family must still have silver hidden somewhere else, and he had to find out all the money, and all the relatives of the other clansmen of the Ba family would also be arrested and sentenced to death together.

Now every time they live longer, they have to be frightened for a moment, first tortured mentally, and then tortured physically, so that they will never be reborn forever.

He would like to see, who would dare to forget all the classics and act as traitors and lackeys for money in the future.

After more than 100 people dragged it down, Zhu Cilang became slightly less angry.

Three days later, Liu Fangliang led the army to Datong, and there was no obstruction. Jiang Yu and the prefect of Datong committed suicide in fear of crime.

And Wei Jin also took people to count all the money, food and materials, and then escorted them all back to Xuanfu City together with Wu Sanfu.

"To report to Your Majesty, the eight families confiscated more than [-] taels of gold, more than [-] million taels of silver, more than [-] shi of fine grain wheat, [-] catties of salt, [-] bolts of tea bricks, more than [-] bolts of cotton cloth and satin, and armor. Two thousand pairs, five thousand long knives, fifty thousand arrows, and some jewelry, antiques and porcelain..."

After Wei Jin finished reading, he handed over the booklet. Although he was already shocked, his hands were still trembling.

These eight Shanxi merchants are really crazy.

It's simply hard to atone for the crime.

The eight families add up to tens of thousands of carriages. How many weapons and materials are smuggled to Jiannu and Tartar every year?
In fact, there are not so many at one time, and it is always a steady flow. It is only this time that the loss of building slaves is heavy, and Dorgon placed a lot of orders.

"Snapped!"

"These dogs..." Zhu Cihong took the booklet and flipped through it, then slapped it heavily on the table.

Obviously, the words were not limited to scolding the eight Shanxi merchants, because the arrows, long knives, and armor were all finished products, which must have been built by the military officers of the guards according to the requirements, and then the eight merchants bought them and were responsible for transportation and sales.

It's almost fucking become an industrial chain.

The fire that had just been suppressed in the past two days quickly burst out again.

"Hong Ling, you bring 3000 people, except for weapons and armor, take all the rest of the supplies back to the capital for storage!"

"It's Your Majesty!"

The female general Hong Ling hurriedly replied.

This time the red lady went south, Zhu Cihong swapped her with Xu Lan, another concubine in preparation in the palace.

The [-] female soldiers under the two also swapped with each other. In the name of taking turns guarding the palace, Xu Lan and the other [-] female soldiers are actually more loyal.

Because they had been in the palace for several months, and Xu Lan was guarding his bedside every night, that's why Zhu Cihong asked her to go south to monitor and protect Zhang Yan and Hong Niangzi.

After all, one is the empress dowager and the other is a noble concubine, and they are both at the age of wolves and tigers. After leaving the palace, no matter how much they trust them, they will be strictly monitored.

Every move of the two women, daily activities, and who they met, the female officer must record in the book. This is the procedure.

"Wu Sanfu, bring your subordinates to gather outside the city, I want to lecture you."

"It's Your Majesty!"

Wu Sanfu's heart skipped a beat, he wasn't corrupt, and his brothers didn't mess around either!But he had to hurry to execute it.

A quarter of an hour later, Zhu Cihong came to the tower, five thousand cavalry, including Wu Sanfu and a group of eunuchs, lined up neatly.

"According to Jin Yiwei's secret report, when carrying money in Zhangjiakou, many people's hands and feet were dirty. I will give you a chance to hand in all the things you took. I can let the past go. If you don't want to hand it over, you will find it later. Military law is engaged!"

(End of this chapter)